çel

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cel"

Albanian

Alternative forms

• çil

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *štšela, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“split (apart)”) (compare Lithuanian skélti, Old Norse skilja, Ancient Greek σκάλλω (skállō, “to hoe, stir up”)).

Verb

çel (aorist çela, participle çelur)

1. to open up, undo

   Synonym: hap

2. to sprout, come out
3. to hatch out

Derived terms

• çelur, çelës

Salar

Etymology

Cognate to Turkish çöl.

Pronunciation

• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃel/
• (Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæl/

Noun

çel (3rd person possessive çeli, plural çeller)

1. field, arable land

References

• Kakuk, S. (1962). “Un Vocabulaire Salar.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 14, no. 2: 173–96. [1]
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “çel”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 309
• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992) “çel”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 72
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “çel”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[2], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 67